Hello, I have thought about creating a computer for putting on Gentoo, and will be used mainly 2D and 3D occasional undemanding game / old. I read that the drivers are very good, and is a thousand times more efficient than Nvidia and ATI. Is this true? Intel in Linux is the best option for PC for movies, videos, TV series, (flash player), web, etc.?

I think the main reason for going Intel is that it is open source, and tends to be pretty good compared to the nvidia/ati OSS drivers.
The driver is not perfect. It's a work in progress. The problem I do have with the drivers is sometimes it has drawing artifacts in OpenGL mode.

The hardware is not nearly as fast as the latest offering from nVidia/ATI with their respective closed source drivers. It is very cheap indeed which is probably why anyone is interested in this hardware.

I own HD3000 and HD4000 variants and they are fast enough to run some 3D games, even World of Warcraft in Wine. The graphics do suck up a lot of power (relatively speaking) and since my HD4000 is in a laptop/ultrabook, it's power restricted and can be slow at times..._________________Intel Core i7 2700K@ 4.1GHz/HD3000 graphics/8GB DDR3/180GB SSDWhat am I supposed to be advocating?

Hello, I have thought about creating a computer for putting on Gentoo, and will be used mainly 2D and 3D occasional undemanding game / old. ..... Intel in Linux is the best option for PC for movies, videos, TV series, (flash player), web, etc.?

I run Gentoo testing, Funtoo current, and Sabayon 13.04 on an Intel board DH67CL with HD3000 video and am very happy with everything about it -- it's the smoothest Linux system I've ever had. Graphics support is great, acceleration just works fine. All of the i/o and graphic subsystems work out of the box with each of these distros --- 7.1 HD audio, usb microphone, X/OpenGL graphics, bluetooth, SATA 3.0, SATA 6.0, USB 2.0, USB 3.0, eSATA, gigabit ethernet. I alternate between GNOME 3.6, KDE 4.10, and xmonad. Graphic effects are smooth and beautiful.

As for heat -- I've been amazed at how much work this system can do without getting hot. I did choose a 65-watt cpu with four real cores (instead of the more lustful 95-watt series), and gave it 16 GB of ram, and been glad for that decision. I can encode a movie with handbrake, encoding 60 fps, while emerging an update, with MAKEOPTS="-j3", and browsing Internet or watching a movie without noticing any glitches; and the maximum cpu temperature I hit is a little less than 58 C. I generally never see temps above 55 C and normally run at about 45 C even while compiling. (Intel stock fan on a 2405s i5 cpu in a Fractal Design Define R3 case with three 120 mm fans running almost inaudible at approx 1000 rpm).

Good luck with your new Gentoo system! The Gentoo ecosystem is a great place to do computing.

Yeah "relative" is relative, it's nowhere near what my ATI RadeonHD 5770 eats. In fact my i7 *system* at full load eats less power than just the RadeonHD (in my Core2Quad machine) can pull at full load... Yow!

Then again the 5770 will mine bitcoins and draw 3d far faster..._________________Intel Core i7 2700K@ 4.1GHz/HD3000 graphics/8GB DDR3/180GB SSDWhat am I supposed to be advocating?